Across 7 Phoenician city state destroyed by Rome in 146 BC (8) 9 Light cavalryman originating in Hungary in the 15th century (6) 10 Sailing vessel developed in Macau in the 16th century (6) 11 Germanic people who invaded Italy in the 6th century (8) 12 Palaeolithic communities of south-central Siberia (8,7) 13 La ___, 11th century French epic poem (7,2,6) 17 British archaeologist played by Ken Stott in the film, The Dig (7,8) 21 King of Ithaca in Homer's epic poem (8) 22 ___ Cave, site in the Wet Mountains, Colorado, dating back to the Middle Archaic (6) 23 Country containing the Asprochaliko Rock Shelter site (6) 24 Region of Greece containing the Spartia temple site (8)
Down 1 ___ ware, pottery made near Cologne in the 8th and 9th centuries AD (6) 2 Neolithic and Bronze Age site in the Azmak Valley, Bulgaria, (8) 3 Wind-blown sediments often covering archaeological sites (7,8) 4 Xhosa speaking people from eastern South Africa (6) 5 Forest land cleared and put to arable use (6) 6 High-ranking official of the former Chinese Empire (8) 8 Language group of Bolivia and Peru (7) 14 Heritage listed town near Adelaide, Australia's oldest surviving German settlement (8) 15 Mammal domesticated approximately 8,000 years ago (8) 16 Scottish literary form of English (7) 18 Central European Neolithic culture (6) 19 English city known to the Romans as Isca Dumnoniorum (6) 20 Stone or brick building from the southwestern USA (6)
For answers to #113, see next issue.
Answers to Crossword #112 :
Across: 6 Tree-rings, 8 Homer, 10 Nevada, 11 Triremes, 12 Sestertius, 14 Livy, 15 Wheeler, 17 Yucatan, 20 Iraq, 22 Wellington, 24 Pericles, 25 Danish, 26 Minos, 27 Wairau Bar.
Down: 1 Frieze, 2 Decantae, 3 Giza, 4 Boreal, 5 Dereivka, 7 Gothic, 9 Missouri, 13 Raedwald, 16 Haroeris, 18 Argonaut, 19 Alaska, 21 Quinoa, 23 Ossian, 25 Dart.
